I'm sorry, and I hope I am wrong, but I expected St Joey to win.  I dont think there is any gas left in the tank.
We'll sit around an hope for a CBI bid.  

townsonkid wrote:

I'm sorry, and I hope I am wrong, but I expected St Joey to win.  I dont think there is any gas left in the tank.
We'll sit around an hope for a CBI bid.  

Man I hope you are wrong 
 

HerbertHoover wrote:

One and done...this team lacks discipline, and gets crushed on the boards. a very hard formula to win games in the tournament. I hope I am wrong....  we haven't blown out anyone, which doesn't make me feel good about playing St Joes. I know Dambrot is good in the post season but the game last year against richmond was a disaster.

Hey, isn't this your first post since the Penn State game, where you ripped the Coach?
 

I'm not as optimistic. That team had a senior Aaron Jackson. I think we can beat St. Joe's though. 20 wins is a successful season to me.

Yes, I agree, Tejas, it doesn't look like Herb's a big fan of the current coach.

townsonkid wrote:

I would like to get #20.  It wont be easy.  Will need EW to score, 20+ I think.  No one else can be counted on to fill it up.  

Droning on, being repetitious - we need to hit a bunch of 3's to win - in my opinion.

CLK wrote:

Ten years ago DU was in an identical situation. DU was a 7th seed and nobody believed they could get to the finals.  DU surprised a lot of people.  I still believe this team can beat any team in this league, if they play together, don't listen to the negative voices, and believe in themselves.  Let's win this thing.  Go Dukes!

This was the under-sized team from 2008-09.
They had fight.

Starting 5 was something like:
AJax @ 6-4
​D Saunders @ 6-7
B Clark @ 6-5
​J Duty @ 6-1
M Bolding @ 6-3 / BJ Monterio @ 6-5

​Avg Team Height 6-4
​Avg Team Experience 1.1 Yrs

​& a great run to the Finals:
​UMass 91-81
​URI 78-74
Dayton 77-66
​Then ran into the Dionte Christmas buzz saw to lose to Temple by 5. 

They actually defended Christmas well in that Championship game; but got beat by the other guard who was not a good shooter.  The guy just had the best shooting day of his life that day.  They also had trouble with the Temple center, a foreign player, who was awkward, but very tall.  He got some easy baskets due to our lack of height. 
I’m sure someone can fill in some of the Temple names; but that is my recollection.

The most interesting part of that tournament was the fact that RE surprised everyone by backing off the run-and-gun style and playing a very patient, half-court style.  It was a masterful coaching move by Ron that came so close to putting us in the NCAA tournament.

Can Dennis Rodman come in this summer and teach these guys how to rebound?  Just tell him Kim Jung Un is in town, he'll get here PDQ!   :-)

mjp1542 wrote:

levon1975 wrote:

They actually defended Christmas well in that Championship game; but got beat by the other guard who was not a good shooter. The guy just had the best shooting day of his life that day. They also had trouble with the Temple center, a foreign player, who was awkward, but very tall. He got some easy baskets due to our lack of height.
I’m sure someone can fill in some of the Temple names; but that is my recollection.

The most interesting part of that tournament was the fact that RE surprised everyone by backing off the run-and-gun style and playing a very patient, half-court style. It was a masterful coaching move by Ron that came so close to putting us in the NCAA tournament.

Eh, they didn't defend Christmas well at all in the first half. He had 29 points, including 20 before halftime. Sergio Olmos was the awkward center. He gave us fits because of his size. Had 14 and 9. Ryan Brooks hit four threes for them, including a few big ones down the stretch when we made a few runs at them.

We were only down six with 3:50 to play, then missed two free throws and four field goal attempts on the next five possessions when neither team scored. The opportunity was there. I think the four games in four days killed us there, as we were every bit as good as Temple.
 

mjp1542, I don't think there was any question that the Dukes ran out of gas.  Playing 153 out of the 160 minutes as an undersized center in the tourney, Damian Saunders had nothing left in the tank in the last 5 minutes of the Temple game.  AJAX also played 156 minutes in the tourney.  The lack of depth at the center position caught up with the Dukes; the backup was Oliver Lewinson and another big, Rodrigo Peggau was out since December with season ending surgery.